The Early Genius of Leo McCarey (The McCarey Way)
With Live Piano Accompaniment by Hughes Maréchal
The Early Genius of Leo McCarey.
USA 1924-1929 | Leo McCarey | Programme de courts-métrages muets avec accompagnés live au piano par Hughes Maréchal | intertitres EN | 96' | digital
This programme presents a selection of silent shorts made during Leo McCarey’s formative years at Hal Roach Studios, where he began working in 1923. The films trace McCarey’s rapid ascent from gag writer to one of the studio’s key creative minds. Starting with scenario work and gag construction, he soon moved behind the camera to direct Charley Chase shorts, developing his instinct for performance, rhythm, and narrative structure. By the late 1920s, he was supervising productions and shaping the work of others, most notably by bringing together Laurel & Hardy as a permanent duo and defining their comic dynamic. Seen together, these shorts reveal McCarey’s rapid development as a filmmaker — cultivating his own voice, mastering precise timing, and refining character-driven comedy within the collaborative environment of Hal Roach Studios.
Au programme
The Poor Fish
USA 1924 | Cast : Charley Chase, Beth Darlington, Sammy Brooks
Mighty Like a Moose
USA 1924 | Cast : Charley Chase, Vivien Oakland, Ann Howe
Pass the Gravy
.USA 1928 | Fred Guiol, supervision Leo McCarey | Cast : Max Davidson, Martha Sleeper, Bert Sprotte
Wrong Again
USA 1929 | Cast : Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Liberty
USA 1929 | Cast : Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy
Org.: Cinémathèque
